Center Forward is funding practically all the corporate Democrats making trouble in Congress.
Alexander Sammon
Alexander Sammon is a former staff writer at The American Prospect.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Oil Merchant in the Gray Flannel Suit
Why aren’t insurance companies aggressively fighting climate change, and minimizing catastrophes? Look at their balance sheets.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: A Surprisingly Radical Housing Bill
Practically all the solutions to diminishing the high cost of housing, from nudges to public options, are present in the housing piece of the reconciliation bill.
Posted inPolitics
The Vanishing Case for Liberal Inaction
Democrats who believe we should keep the filibuster because they fear a Republican majority are just worried about the world as it exists today.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: Heidi Heitkamp’s Lobbying Journey
Before she got hired to run a dark-money outfit, she advocated for tax hikes on dynastic wealth. Now, she’s against them.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Prop 22, and California’s Constitutional Absurdity
Why doesn’t the state figure out whether ballot initiatives are legal before people vote on them?
Posted inPolitics
Clintonism’s Zombie
Making sense of Josh Gottheimer’s attempts to sabotage the Democratic agenda
Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: Will Biden’s Agenda Survive the Senate Finance Committee?
Testing Ron Wyden’s willingness to challenge the rich and powerful
Posted inPolitics
Nina Turner Lost to the Redbox
How Shontel Brown used questionably legal campaign finance tactics to take a House seat
Posted inEconomic Policy
Larry Summers Holds Positions With Numerous Financial Bottom-Feeders
The online, often predatory lending companies benefit from lower-income Americans needing emergency cash. That aligns with Summers’s concern trolling about an ‘overheated’ economy.
